Autore
Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario

Titolo
Lo scandalo del cotone. Un'epurazione di massa in nome della perestrojka
Periodico
Contemporanea
Anno: 2023 - Volume: 102 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 397 - Pagina finale: 420

The Cotton Affair (1983-1989) was the largest purge in the post-Stalinist USSR. This episode, which occurred in the Uzbek periphery, grew out in a complex judicial and political imbroglio concerning the falsification of data on cotton production and the corruption that served to cover it up. The scandal rapidly overwhelmed the ruling class and expanded to other sectors, finding connections to the Moscow power centers. This season of mass purges and criminal prosecutions constitutes a relatively obscure episode of perestroika but one of great importance in late Soviet history by which we can interpret, from a local perspective, Andropov’s legacy in early Gorbachev policy, the extent of reform and change in the Soviet periphery, and how this triggered a crisis within the communist party of Uzbekistan and in relations with the Moscow center, accelerating the Soviet collapse.



SICI: 1127-3070(2023)102:3<397:LSDCUD>2.0.ZU;2-I
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